Candidates

Be at the forefront in the fight for a more democratic and united Europe! Be a candidate at the next European Elections with the only pan-European and bottom-up political party! To know more contact us at irun4europe@federalistparty.eu. Please write “I run 4 Europe” in the subject text.

Meet our candidates for the last European Elections. We run in 6 countries!

Georgios Kostakos

Georgios Kostakos, European Federalist Party

He served on the secretariat of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP) as Senior Adviser and Acting Deputy Executive Secretary, and on many other positions at UN Headquarters in New York, UN field missions, the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and the University of Athens.

He is currently an independent consultant based in Brussels, Belgium. In his over twenty years of experience he has been dealing with issues of global governance and sustainability, climate change, UN reform and policy planning, UN system coordination, political affairs, conflict resolution, peacekeeping and peacebuilding.

Pietro De Matteis

Pietro De Matteis, PhD, European Federalist Party

As a convinced federalist I first joined the European movements (e.g. JEF, GFE) after my Erasmus year at University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne in 2003 when I was engaged in the campaign for the ratification of the “European Constitution”. It is back then that I first considered developing a pan-European federalist party.

An economist by training, I graduated from the University of Milan-Bicocca (summa cum laude) and obtained a Masters-level degree from the European College of Parma. Thanks to some scholarships and by working aside, I had the opportunity support my studies towards a PhD in international studies form the University of Cambridge and to research in the USA (Columbia University) and in China (Renmin University).

As I believe that we can improve Europe also “from the inside”, I have worked for various European institutions. At the same time, a lot can only be changed “from the outside” by engaging with Europeans directly. For this reason I am actively involved in several pro-European organisations.

As Europe is diversity, I speak Italian, English, French, Spanish and Chinese. To see what I am up to you can follow me on Twitter and on Facebook!